Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-04-28

Several cases OF opium smuggling have
occurred in Port Huron recently.
rhe Michigan state firemen's association
holds its annual meeting at Grand Rapids,
May 4.
Another big gas well has been struck In
Port Huron.
Plans have been adopted for a $50, 600
Y. NJ c. A. building in Kalamazoo.
Sarah Mclean of Jackson has been held
for trial on a charge OF attempted poison
ing.
Samuel Gordon of Mugkegon was fatally
injured by the breaking of rollway the
other day.
Michigan's cut of white pine shows a de-
crease as compared with last years cut Of
259, S43, 900 feet.
A Canada Sault storekeeper was fined
So and costs for selling five cents worth of
candy on Sunday.
The new silk factory at Bedding is run
ming. 1t is supplied with the best ma
chnery to be had.
1t is expected that the free delivery
system will be i'm running order In Flint
10y the first of July.
Will T. b. Schermerhorn, postmaster
at Hudson and editor of the Gazette of
that village, is dead.
Lawrence, Van Buren, county, has ban
ished saloons and made drunkenness on
her streets $40 crime.
The late Hon. Edward Breitung left no
will. His large estate will pass directly
to his wife and only son.
The new wooden mill at Clinton is near
ly completed and with good luck the mill
will be in operation in May.
The Bedding manufacturing company
has received orders for refrigerators to be
shipped to Sidney, Australia.
Felix Schadt of Negaunee, aged 30 years,
fell fifty feet into shaft at the Lille
mine, and was instantly killed.
An East Saginaw firm has just finished
Corllss engine, said to be the finest one
ever manufactured in this state.
Prof. ii. A. Edwards of Niles takes the
chair of mechanics lately resigned by Prof.
McLouth in the agricultural college.
Thos. Eckley of Fort Gratiot, has gone
to Bristol, England, to accept large
fortune left him by wealthy uncle.
The Coldwater saloOnkeepers promise to
obey the law to the letter If the common
council will allow it to remain as ii Is
Hobart Hall, building erected in Ann
Arbor for Episcopal students at the uni
versity, was dedicated on the 10th inst.
Arson Brewer. aged II, whose home is
two miles from Caledonia, Kent county.
was thrown from a wagon and his neck
broken.
The st. Joe valley boating and fishing
club has been organized at Three Rivers to
aid the game warden in the enforcement
of the laws.
The state homeopathic medical society
holds its annual meeting in Lansing May
II and is. Gov. Luce will deliver an ad-
dress of welcome.
A 5-years- child of John Lehman.
Maple Grove township, Barry county, fell
backwards from a wagon the other day
and broke its neck.
The Ropes gold mine, which Is produc-
ing 81. 600 In bullion monthly, is to be
equipped with machinery to increase the
product so per cent.
Smith Sanford, keeper of low dive in
Grand Rapids. has been sentenced to six
months in Jail, for nearly starving one of
the inmates of his den.
DIR. Wier of Oscoda has been held for
trial for causing the death of Mable Clark,
an inmate of his hospital. He was COM
mitted to Jail without bail.
David ID. Erwin of Muskegon has been
appointed receiver of the Newaygo manu-
featuring company, the institution IN
which ID. p. Clay is involved
Gov. Luce is reported to have said that
he should return to his home in Gilead,
after the adjournment of the legislature,
as Lansing is too expensive place for
him.
An old man named John Blair of Brady
township, Kalamazoo county, was engaged
in burning brush. when his clothing
caught fire, and he was literally burned to
death.
The state insurance bureau received
and paid into the state treasury last year
S131, III. and drew therefrom in salaries,
printing. binding and all other expenses,
81, 1O3.
The 14th annual convention of the
Michigan state firemen's association will
be held at Grand Rapids on the 4th day OF
May. a very interesting program has
been prepared, and a large attendance is
looked for.
Michigan railroads earned in February
S., 1877, O97, an increase for 1887 of S431,-
SOL The total earnings from January l
to March l show an increase for 1887 of
S1;417, 329.
With the contemplated railroad connec-
tons which will probably be soon COM
pleted, Muskegon people expect to ride to
Grand Rapids i'm an hour, to Lansing in
two and half and to Detroit in five and a
half hours.
William A. Hearst's saw and Touring
mills at Wahjemega, together with 1,000,-
600 feet of lumber, were entirely destroyed
by fire on the cath inst. The property.
valued at $40, 900, had no insurance and
is a total loss.
The Belknap wagon works are filling q
large order for logging trucks TO go to
Missouri, and for logging carts for Arkan-
sas The trucks are six feet between the
wheels, and the wheels of the carts are
eight feet high.
A horse belonging to a Leslie butcher
named John Winchel ran away with him,
throwing him out and breaking leg near
the ankle. The bone protruded through
the flesh and had to be sawed off before II
could be replaced.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
has contracted with Saginaw parties to
carry 1000, 900 barrels of salt to Chicago
and Milwaukee via Ludington. This is
on account of the increased rate recently
adopted by the Michigan Central.
4. ii. McGraw & Co., of Bay City, have
sold their Naubinway plant including
mill, docks and 100, 900, 900 feet of stand
ing pine, to J. L. Hurst of Wyandotte, for
100000 The property cost McGraw &
Co. less than $500, 900 three years ago.